Today started perhaps, the favorite project of ART 8 students- deconstructed books/book art pieces. What 8th grader hasn't fantasized about destroying a book in school at some point. With this project, they can-in the name of art. Students have no rules, except to take an old recycled book and breathe new life into it through art. Some students are going deconstructivist and creating an abstract piece that looks nothing like a book, others are creating new worlds made of paper and book spines and still others plan to create textural and visual pieces with pages. Keep checking back to see our progress over the next couple weeks. After choosing their books and doing some iPad research on all the different book art out there, ART 8 students spent the day planning and prepping their books. Some students cut off covers, cut out pages, painted and some just played around on our "practice books" to see what methods they wanted to use.
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This project challenged my ART 8 students to review the elements of art and create a unique abstract piece out of a piece of paper. Each student was given the same size papers (2 different thicknesses and sizes each) and shown the project introduction below. That's it! They had a million questions and were told to figure it out, look beyond the paper as a piece of paper and to review their elements of art notes from the last quarter we met. The results are unique, always turn out great and the problem solving process student go through is invaluable as a life lesson. day one: project intro and frustrationAfter showing the simple Powerpoint project intro above and a few student examples from last quarter, students set out to create their pieces and win 1 of 3 king-sized candy bars. I am not going to lie- there was MAJOR FRUSTRATION! After not being able to figure it all out within 5 minutes and me not giving any answers, there was complaining, refusal to do it and whining. BUT....I always have confidence in my kids and they decided to give it another go. Each attempt was better than the last. The end of the first hour gave us the beginnings of some great pieces and some sense of pride and accomplishment on the student's end. days two through four: |
A special thanks to Mrs. Kamp in Baltimore, Maryland for the project idea. You can check out her blog at the link below our project in progress gallery to the right ART 8 students are diving deeper into form and space after finishing our overview of the seven elements of art. We talked about the difference between shape and form (shape is a 2D representation and form is a 3D representation). Students then experimented with shape on paper and then turned those shapes into 3D forms of their choice. Once they settled on a 3D form, they made 60 variations. After the completion of their form variations, students will learn about composition and rearrange their forms into a pleasing composition, taking into account positive and negative space. The end result will be abstract paper relief sculptures. Relief sculptures are sculptures that come off their canvas (in our case- colored railroad board). Check back to see our progress to the right! |
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